Re: Generic events for wake up from S1-S4

[Luis R. Rodriguez]

On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 8:51 AM, Luis R. Rodriguez<mcgrof@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 4:53 PM, Pavel Machek<pavel@xxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Tue 2009-07-14 15:11:45, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
>>> I'm working on Wake-on-Wireless support for wireless right now [1].
>>> Upon wake up I wanted to inform the kernel of the event which caused
>>> the wake up but am not clear if there is a generic API for this. Mind
>>> you, for WoW we'll need at least some AC power to the card so we'll
>>> need to at least be in S3-Hot so we'll only need events for that for
>>> now.
>>>
>>> Do we have some generic infrastructure to gather reasons for wake up
>>> from S1-S4 and pass this to userspace yet?
>>
>> I do not think generic api exists...

Going back to this topic -- any suggestions? Will a generic netlink
family be OK? Or perhaps easier a udev event for some suitable
existing parent ?

  Luis
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